[open-development] OKFest session proposal: Perspectives on open knowledge: an open panel

Wed Mar 12 13:00:33 UTC 2014

Hello Duncan, Tom (+ hi Gisele), & cc in Michelle Brook who I've also
spoken with about OKFest sessions on diversity.

I think there might indeed be two sessions here, one more theoretical, and
one more practical.

The session I was proposing was more at the theoretical end of the
spectrum: asking what does the concept of open knowledge mean in different
contexts. There is often a reductive tendency in some core Open Knowledge
advocacy to refer to the open definition, or to some simple set of defining
characteristics of knowledge as an artefact. Yet, as we discussed in the
OKFest 2012 Open Development stream, there are many different visions of
open knowledge, and different interests that draw people into an open
knowledge space. I would love it if this session was able to pull out
understandings of open knowledge both from different national and gender
perspectives, as well as from different thematic strands of the open
knowledge community: science, development, hardware etc.

The more practical session (though, of course, no less theoretical), might
perhaps start from Duncan's questions, and go into an exploration of what
practical steps are needed in the Open Knowledge community to put greater
diversity into practice, as well as pursuing an honest exploration of the
challenges that can create.

There was a diversity track at OKFest2012, so I'm guessing there will also
be people involved in that working up session ideas - but Duncan, if you
were up for developing a proposal idea on this second one (sorry for
missing your 'Diversity, inclusiveness, and voice' line in the move across
hackpads, I though it was unclaimed, so had left it off) - that would be
great.

All the best

Tim

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Duncan Edwards <D.Edwards at ids.ac.uk> wrote:

>  Hi Tom,
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> I suggested a session looking at diversity, inclusiveness, and voice on
> the hack-pad which has now disappeared. I suspect it has morphed into the
> session Tim is proposing.
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> My original thought was to look at diversity in terms of
> inclusion/exclusion and looking at what real inclusion might mean in an
> Open Data/knowledge world.
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> I was thinking perhaps to bring some focus to a session we could frame it
> around inclusion, voice, and representation in the creation of data,
> information, and knowledge.
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> ·         What do mean by inclusion? What different aspects of inclusion
> should we be considering? Gender? Class? Urban/rural? Ethnicity? Geography?
> Language?
>
> ·         How is different knowledge and the way it is voiced valued?
> Just because someone has "access" to a process of knowledge creation
> doesn't mean their contributions are considered to have equal value.
>
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>
> I thought an interesting case study could be
> http://www.zerogeography.net/2014/01/uneven-geographies-of-user-generated.htmlwhich highlights some of these dimensions in relation to the creation of
> knowledge on Wikipedia - specifically looking at Wikipedia content related
> to the Middle East and North Africa region.
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> Tim - how would this focus work with what you were thinking? Looking at
> your proposal what I'm suggesting feels like it is in a slightly different
> area?
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> Tom - Does this fit with what you're thinking?
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> Cheers,
>
> Duncan
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> *From:* open-development [mailto:open-development-bounces at lists.okfn.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Everton Zanella Alvarenga
> *Sent:* 12 March 2014 04:47
> *To:* open-development at lists.okfn.org
> *Cc:* Gisele da Silva Craveiro
> *Subject:* Re: [open-development] OKFest session proposal: Perspectives
> on open knowledge: an open panel
>
>
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> this sounds interesting. Are you happy to include gender gap we have in
> the open world? I'm just asking this, since the subject is fresh on my head
> for we are discussing who from OKF Brazil networking will be part of the
> advisory board of OKF Central, and it was noted the big bias we have here <
> http://okfn.org/about/advisory-board/> with its majority composed of guys
> - for sure when I mention the gap in open world I mean a broaden problem
> instead of a particular advisory board.
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> I'm also ccing here professor Gisele Craveiro, president of the Open
> Knowledge Brazil, who might be interested to join this presentation.
>
> Tom
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> 2014-03-11 20:52 GMT-03:00 Tim Davies <tim at practicalparticipation.co.uk>:
>
>  Hello all
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> We had a great call this morning talking about possible session proposals
> for OKFest 2014. Under current actions in the Hackpad at
> https://hackpad.com/OpenDev-at-OKFest14-SDobXcJkwPC you can find a list
> of all the possible sessions that were talked about*.
>
>
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> One I promised to work up a proposal for was titled 'Open Knowledge &
> Diversity' - with the idea that we repeat the 'open panel' idea used in
> Helsinki[1] (sort of like a Fishbowl debate on stage) to discuss what open
> knowledge means from different contexts - and surface some of the tensions
> and opportunities that come up when we think about the important aspects of
> open knowledge from the perspective of different countries, level of
> development, or issues.
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> The draft proposal is at:
> https://hackpad.com/Open-Knowledge-Diversity-An-open-panel-7tNuWvLQVTX
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> I would love feedback (including on the title - currently changed to
> 'Perspectives on Open Knowledge') and anyone who wants to be named as a
> co-organiser, or who might be willing to be a starting panelist for this if
> it was accepted.
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> Thanks in advance
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>
> All the best
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> Tim
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> [1]: http://www.timdavies.org.uk/2012/10/02/reflections-on-an-open-panel/
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